An exquisite 18-carat gold watch, which three wealthy widows gave to the captain of the ship that rescued them from the Titanic tragedy, is expected to sell at auction, with estimates suggesting it will fetch close to £120,000. Madeleine Astor, Marianne Thayer and Eleanor Wyder bought this gold watch from Tiffany & Co after they returned safely to New York on the rescue ship RMS Carpathia. Their husbands, among the richest men of the time, perished in the Titanic wreck in 1912. John Astor, the richest passenger on the doomed ship, had a fortune that would today be the equivalent of £2.2 billion. A year before the tragedy, Astor had caused a scandal when he divorced his first wife and married the then 18-year-old Madeleine. The couple were enjoying a six-month honeymoon in Europe and were returning to America on the Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg and sank on […]
Source: News Beast
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